Re: How can process in STOP state consume 200% CPU?

Yuri <yuri <at> rawbw.com>
2002-01-01 03:11:49 GMT

On 06/28/2011 17:24, Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> (Sorry about quoting, it doesn't always work well from the web client).
> Most probably the process is running in an endless loop in the kernel
> mode.
> Where it got after entering the STOP state. Remember, the signals are
> processed
> only after the process exits from the kernel mode to the user mode,
> and so are the
> scheduling states. While it's in the kernel mode, you can't do anything
> to it other than use the kernel debugger.
How is this normally possible to make program to loop in kernel mode on
-STABLE kernel? Doesn't this mean bug in kernel?
Yuri
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